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Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage Overtakes Words With Friends

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage is ranked #7 in the iTunes App Store and has just overtaken the popular game, Words with Friends.

Fling characters like Cantaloupe, Banana and “Painapple” to a gruesome deaths while you rack up points and bonus time in your quest to become the best Fruitslinger in the Kitchen!

Features Included:

  • Fast-paced fruit-slinging arcade action in a beautifully rendered 3D kitchen!
  • A flick of the finger sends Apple, Banana, Cantaloupe and more to juice spraying deaths.
  • Collect big points with bonus multipliers on blenders, cutting boards and the almighty “Vent Hood of Death”!
  • Earn bonus time from Orange’s entourage hiding in the cabinets (shake device when the cabinets knock).
  • Claim your spot at the top of the fruit salad with Gamecenter (over 20 achievements and 3 global leaderboards).
  • Over 40 unique voice clips and animations from your favorite series characters!
  • Knife!

New characters, deaths and other surprises are already in development…so get it now and be ready to compete in the next round of carnage!

Bottle Rocket’s SPIN Play for iPad Featured in iTunes

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Now that iTunes allows for subscriptions, more magazines are putting out iPad apps. The best ones, such as SPIN Play – developed by Bottle Rocket – offer new experiences beyond turning the iPad into a fancy page viewer, and that is one of the reasons that SPIN Play for iPad is featured in iTunes this week.

It’s a digital version of the current issue (which you can buy for $1.99 per issue or $7.99 for a year’s subscription), and it includes other features such as:

  • Recent top stories
  • Exclusive behind the scenes videos
  • Playlist of about 60 songs hand-selected by Spin’s music editors
  • Streaming audio with Airplay
  • Ability to download songs

Now you can actually play some of the songs the writers are reviewing, and you can decide which music reviewers share the same musical taste as you.

Bottle Rocket Apps Releases Holiday Update for its Award-Winning “Doodle Bomb” Game for iPhone and iPod touch

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

To celebrate the holidays, Bottle Rocket Apps has developed new missions, characters and holiday theme for its popular iPhone and iPod touch game, “Doodle Bomb”. The new version, available to existing owners of the game as a free download from the iTunes App Store, adds a holiday theme as well as new missions to continue to challenge players.

Doodle Bomb is one of the most popular physics puzzle games on the iTunes App Store, with more than 1 million downloads since its release in early 2010. The game features physics driven bombs, strategically placed machines, and hilarious characters and sound effects. It’s easy to pick up and play, but difficult to master, requiring strategy, timing and precision. The game has been played more than 7 million times, and players have already completed more than 25 million missions, in less than a year.

This free holiday update gives Doodle Bomb fans 12 new challenging missions on which to earn “Bomb Badges,” plus a new present machine that acts as a springboard to send virtual bombs hurling into hard to reach places. The game’s cast of characters has received a holiday facelift as well: the enemy soldiers and bomb-bouncing rats have dressed up for the season with hats and antlers.

“We wanted to give our fans an update that didn’t just provide new mission content, but also gave them a reason to go back and explore the missions they have already played to see what has changed in the Doodle Bomb world for the Holidays,” said Bottle Rocket’s Matt Johnson, designer of the game. “Nothing gets people into the spirit like giant peppermints falling out of the sky and rats with antlers toting shotguns!”

Since its release at the beginning of the year, Doodle Bomb has garnered critical acclaim from industry review sites, including a MacWorld Editor’s Choice Award and being named as one of the five best doodle games of the year by Appolicious. The game consistently receives great customer reviews, and even celebrity interest: in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with actor Neil Patrick Harris before hosting the 2010 Video Game Awards, he praised Doodle Bomb as a “great game,” saying that it was one of his favorites!

Bottle Rocket’s Doodle Bomb is available for both the iPhone and iPod touch and is compatible with the iPad. The new version of the game can be purchased on the iTunes App Store now for $0.99 (U.S.), or downloaded for free by existing users.

iPhone Owners Download Twice As Many Paid Apps As Android Owners

Friday, July 9th, 2010

According to Business Insider, Apple iPhone owners are downloading nearly twice as many paid mobile applications as Google Android users.

Some reasons why users might download more iTunes paid apps could be:

  • iTunes has an easy purchasing system.
  • Popular paid apps are easily highlighted.
  • The iPhone is positioned as a premium phone so your users are more likely to be the type of user who buys paid apps.

Are there other reason you think people might be more willing to purchase paid apps from iPhone over Android?